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Too Many Ideas and Nowhere to Put Them
Read more: Too Many Ideas and Nowhere to Put ThemI feel like I’ve been talking about a lot of sad things lately and I just want to flip the scrip to something I struggle with regularly: Too many ideas. As soon as I get a new problem or a new client to solve, my brain goes in five thousand different directions and ends up…
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Ways to Minimize Social Media’s Affect on Your Mental Health When It is Your Job
Read more: Ways to Minimize Social Media’s Affect on Your Mental Health When It is Your JobWhat do you do when what you do for a living is possibly hurting your mental health? That’s a question many social media professionals are facing right now, and there’s no great answer. I know I’m not the only one who has looked longingly as friends have talked about digital detoxes or when they have…
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How to Keep Posting During a Dark Time
Read more: How to Keep Posting During a Dark TimeI recently saw someone post about how it’s a dark time to work in social media. There are days where that feels about right. I have friends who are being directly and indirectly affected by a lot of the change going on in our country. And I can count myself as one of those people.…
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Protecting Yourself Prior to a Troll Attack
Read more: Protecting Yourself Prior to a Troll AttackIt’s not a matter of if a social media manager will experience a troll attack. It’s a matter of when. I’ve handled social media accounts for all kinds of industries and of all kinds of sizes. It doesn’t matter how small or how nice your page is. You can’t please everyone all the time. So…
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Losing Trust and Moving Forward
Read more: Losing Trust and Moving ForwardThere is nothing more devastating to a relationship than losing trust. And there were many of us who watched the TikTok debacle go down and realized we fully cannot trust anyone who runs a social media network anymore. Of course the big problem is that so many of us work in social media with zero…
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From Problem to Problem with No Rest
Read more: From Problem to Problem with No RestI don’t know about you, but I’m tired. From the minor (like snow days that have kept our family cooped up inside) to the major (like changes that make the landscape of social media almost unrecognizable), I feel like I’m going from problem to problem with little to no rest. Can just one day be…
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How to Keep Going
Read more: How to Keep GoingIt’s a new year! And we’ve made ALL the resolutions and ALL the goals. Because this year is going to be different and we’re going to keep going no matter what. Until we don’t. Maybe ALL the resolutions and ALL the goals you had in mind were a bit much. Maybe you were overenthusiastic during…
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Ways Social Media Can Help Your Mental Health
Read more: Ways Social Media Can Help Your Mental HealthI’ve read so many ways that social media can deteriorate your mental health that I thought it might be interesting to turn that on its head and look at the positives for once. Granted, social media is not going to cure your mental health and you really should be under the care of a doctor…
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When It’s Time to Stop for Your Mental Health
Read more: When It’s Time to Stop for Your Mental HealthLast week, I had a post ready to go for Wednesday, and I quickly nixed it that morning. Why? It was how to keep going while your mental health coped with the uncertainty of the election. The problem was that nothing was uncertain on Wednesday morning. It was all very, very certain. And many people…
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On Prioritizing and Feelings
Read more: On Prioritizing and FeelingsI am overwhelmed. Our family’s schedule is out of control with October activities. My daughter has her lessons three days a week, as well as her regular activities. I took on helping to organize a neighborhood festival. And it feels like there are a million other things in addition to my usual work tasks. To…
